I did not make the claim that Finkelstein is a revisionist.

No, but you said the next best thing:

Finkelstein’s fellow travelers…from the zundelsite, a Holocaust revisionist website

He isn’t a “fellow traveler” of Revisionists either.

Finkelstein is benefitting financially from royalties generated by Holocaust revisionist organizations

He can no more control who sells his books than he can control who takes his classes (at least while he still has a job that is).

If I were in this position, I would be uncomfortable, and take great measures to dissociate myself from these groups.

If I were in Finkelstein’s position, I might feel the same way. But the pt. is neither of us is in this position. He is. It’s his choice, not yrs or mine. If it bothers you so much why don’t you try writing him a nice, polite ltr. inquiring what his view is on this matter. I’ve written him. He takes responding to e mails pretty seriously. He should reply. Maybe he’s even spoken about Revisionism in his work & can pt. you to a reference. But be careful, you may have to buy one of his books to read it!

You’re playing a game that David Horowitz likes to play. Because someone is favorably linked or mentioned by a supposedly anti-Israel or anti-Semitic website, this person automatically BECOMES anti-Israel or anti-Semitic. This is preposterous. Revionists have their own agenda which causes them to latch onto Jews who they view, for their own twisted reasons, as advancing that agenda.

In my case, I have tried to prevent anti-Semitic sites fr. accessing my blog & told them that their attention was unwelcome. But I don’t believe Finkelstein has to do what I’ve done. And in fact we don’t know that he hasn’t, as you yourself say.

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Finkelstein does not claim that the Holocaust did not happen nor does he minimize the enormity of the loss or the suffering. His work on the Holocaust is in an entirely diff. vein than that of Revisionists.

As for a confession, if Dershowitz were caught red handed murdering his mama he wouldn’t confess. So expecting a confession fr. Dershowitz is a hopeless proposition. Let’s just say that many who read Finkelstein’s book find his claims entirely credible.

On the subject of Israel, neither Finkelstein nor Dershowitz are close to my views. But let me say that the human rights lawyer of the 1970s also oddly going by the name Alan Dershowitz, who championed Israeli Arab human rights & wrote articles in Israeli human rights journals, would have very similar views of the Israeli-Arab conflict to mine. In other words, there was a time when Alan Dershowitz once shared views similar to mine on the issues. But that Dershowitz has long since evaporated into a wild-eyed parody of a stark raving demagogic buffoon.

Accusing others of plagiarism is a serious character defect

Yr entire comment is bogus. Accusing others of plagiarism is certainly no defect if you can prove it as Finkelstein has. In fact, it is a service to the academic community in order to weed out those like Dershowitz who manipulate the system for their political-intellectual benefit.

Depaul didnt appreciate sharing billing with the Insitute of Historical Review, Zundelsite, Aryan Nations…

Finkelstein has absolutely nothing to do with any of these groups. Yr feeble attempt to link him to them is a calumny. Do something like this again here & yr comment will be deleted & you possibly banned fr. future commenting. Base yr arguments on fact & not on cheap, false slogans.

YOu can get away w. that crap at LGF or Jewlicious, but NOT here.

If they had to go to justifications like “lack of collegiality,” their case will be pretty easy to challenge.